At a San Francisco event today, Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang are set to detail RTX Spark-powered Surface hardware built to run AI models on-device.
Coatue and Blackstone are leading a round that could value the Nvidia-backed cloud provider at $14.5 billion, as a single $35 billion commitment from Anthropic fuels its push toward a 2027 listing.
The $111 billion merger closed after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute challenge, uniting Paramount+, HBO Max, CBS and CNN under one company carrying roughly $80 billion in debt.
The four-year-old startup's valuation would roughly double again just weeks after a $700 million round, as investors chase alternatives to Nvidia for AI inference.
A blank-check merger valuing the e-grocery marketplace at about $220 million moves toward a shareholder vote after US regulators declared its registration effective.
The Hangzhou lab that rattled Silicon Valley with its low-cost R1 model is raising fresh capital from Tencent and CATL and has hired underwriters for a Star Market debut.
The Austin proptech startup's $120 million equity round, led by Saluda Grade, comes with $330 million in new debt capacity as it races to finance deals through a slower housing market.
Facing a wave of local moratoriums on AI data center construction, AWS says it will stop using secrecy agreements during permitting and fund workforce and energy programs instead.
Circuit Breaker Labs, a Startup Battlefield 200 finalist, red-teams AI companions with armies of simulated users to find the blind spots linked to real harm.
The two-year-old firm, anchored by a $30 million commitment from Ares Management, deliberately stopped short of its own target after courting founders who felt misunderstood by generalist investors.
A new Google analysis ties the economics of space-based computing to SpaceX hitting a launch cadence and cost curve it hasn't yet proven, even as a first test satellite reached orbit this week.
The settlement closes out claims dating to 2016 that Lyft denied drivers minimum wage and other protections by treating them as contractors — a case Uber still faces.
The startup, whose software now handles leasing and patient paperwork for one in six U.S. apartments, raised $350 million led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer.
Paid highway rides begin in three cities as the robotaxi leader races to scale even while regulators examine a safety incident.
Advisers have told Sam Altman he can list sooner at a lower price or hold out for a $1 trillion valuation and wait — and the delay is already costing one of OpenAI's biggest backers.
FAA certification clears the company to fly its own delivery drones, targeting the mid-range orders that human Dashers handle slowest.
The New York startup, whose software already runs leasing and maintenance for one in six U.S. apartments, raised $350 million as investors keep betting on AI tools with real enterprise revenue.
The crowdsourced task platform that helped train early machine-learning systems closes today, squeezed out by the AI boom it helped build and newer rivals like Scale AI, Mercor and Prolific.
Investors ordered more than $109 billion for the debt that will help fund the $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery takeover, even as rating agencies mark the combined company's balance sheet junk and a federal judge weighs a final settlement.
Fidelity and Amplify co-led an oversubscribed Series C round for the edge-AI chip startup, whose founder previously served as chief operating officer at rival Groq.
The all-stock acquisition brings the Stanford AI pioneer and her spatial-reasoning startup into AMD's chip organization as the company races to answer Nvidia's world-model ecosystem.
Insight Partners led the round as demand surges for specialized training data to feed frontier AI models, with the Stanford spinout's revenue growing eighteenfold over the past year.
The Series F, led by Evolution Equity Partners, more than doubles Island's valuation from last year as the company pitches its browser as the control point for governing AI agents inside corporations.
The oversubscribed Series D, co-led by Bill Ackman's Pershing Square, brings the brain-computer interface startup's total funding to $430 million as it works to expand beyond a 30-day FDA clearance.
The Alphabet-owned company has grown paid ridership tenfold in under two years, even as its expansion concentrates heavily in California and Texas and draws fresh federal safety scrutiny.
The Chinese AI lab's annualized revenue jumped after steep price increases on its API, as it finalizes a $7.5 billion funding round tied to a planned Shanghai stock listing.
The round, Harvey's fourth in less than two years, underscores investors' willingness to pay up for AI startups posting outsized revenue growth.
The oversubscribed round, backed by Bill Ackman, will fund a fully implantable version of the company's brain-computer interface for patients with paralysis.
The tunneling startup's valuation has roughly quadrupled since 2022, with fresh capital earmarked for a 150-kilometer underground network across the UAE.
The Dallas-based company, which sells a locked-down browser for corporate data and, increasingly, AI agents, more than doubled its valuation in under two years.
The agreement, which could grow to roughly $20 billion, hands Akamai's stock a lift and gives Anthropic a small equity stake in one of the year's largest corporate bets on AI infrastructure demand.
Colorado-based Locus Lock raised a strategic round led by Range Ventures and In-Q-Tel to expand production of its software-defined navigation receivers ahead of an October product launch.
At its Connect event, Meta unveiled $1,299 VR glasses roughly a third the price of Apple's Vision Pro, plus a keychain-sized companion for its Muse AI assistant.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 can run a 30-billion-parameter AI model without the cloud, but rising memory and manufacturing costs could push flagship phone prices higher.
Hubble Network raised $200 million to expand a satellite system that lets ordinary Bluetooth chips report their location from anywhere on Earth.
Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip is built to run AI on-device, arriving as memory shortages squeeze an already-shrinking smartphone market.
Two sizable offerings were pulled within days of each other, underscoring how fragile the market for new stock listings remains just weeks before Anthropic's expected debut.
The Zhenwu V900 chip and a sharp expansion of Alibaba Cloud's global footprint reflect China's push to scale AI computing despite being locked out of Nvidia's most advanced hardware.
Mac Studios priced near $20,000 are being sold to businesses as a hedge against ballooning per-token AI bills.
Insight Partners and Section 32 led a Series E that underscores investors' appetite for the unglamorous work of feeding frontier AI models cleaner data.
Emergence Capital led a Series B round for the Helsinki company, which runs renewable-powered GPU data centers in Finland and Iceland and says it is already cash-flow positive — an increasingly rare claim among AI infrastructure startups.
Shares of the chipmaker jumped as much as 10% Monday, lifted by surging demand expectations after Meta's new AI agent shot to the top of Apple's App Store.
The Tokyo conglomerate is borrowing more than $11 billion in what would be the largest non-financial corporate bond deal ever out of Asia-Pacific, all to cover the next installment of a stake that will make it one of OpenAI's largest outside shareholders.
The roughly $280 million round, valuing the company near $2.1 billion, reflects Chinese investors' growing appetite for AI chips built on open-source RISC-V architecture.
A $44 million Series A led by Playground Global, plus a $22 million Japanese government grant, will push RegCell's T-cell reprogramming platform toward its first human trials.
The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max went on sale in more than 65 countries Friday, with delivery estimates already slipping into October even as reviewers described the phone as a competent but unsurprising update.
Backed by Mayfield, Maverick Silicon and Qualcomm Ventures, the startup is betting that open standards, not proprietary silicon, can loosen Nvidia's grip on AI data-center networking.
Founded by two former UC Berkeley robotics researchers, the company pays people to physically perform everyday tasks so robots can learn from the recordings, and investors are reportedly racing to back it.
The London-listed reseller is funding part of its biggest-ever acquisition with a fresh equity raise, betting that AI-driven demand for networking and data-center gear justifies a bigger US footprint.
A new "Innovation Exemption" lets specialized platforms trade blockchain-based versions of US stocks without registering as exchanges, a shift that sent Robinhood shares higher and edges the market toward round-the-clock trading.
Rune's RELIC system plugs AI compute directly into solar farms, deploying in weeks instead of years — a wager by Spark Capital and other investors that power, not chips, is now the binding constraint on AI's growth.
The Hong Kong-listed GLM developer combined a $2 billion share placement with $3 billion in convertible bonds, its second major raise since July, as Chinese AI labs race to match the capital intensity of their U.S. rivals.
A warrant-linked supply agreement ties Amazon's data-center power needs to Generac's stock, sending shares up as much as 45 percent.
Cornelis Networks unveiled an open networking architecture meant to keep AI chips fed with data instead of idling, betting that data-center operators want an alternative to Nvidia's proprietary fabric.
The round, led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, arrives seven months after Profound's last raise and pushes total funding for the two-year-old company past $335 million.
The company is said to be readying a microphone-and-speaker-only pair of glasses as scrutiny mounts over its camera-equipped Ray-Ban line.
Sam Altman says an OpenAI listing would be an "ill-advised" moment amid AI safety concerns, even as rival Anthropic reportedly prepares a roadshow targeting a $2 trillion valuation.
The upsized two-year loan from about 20 banks comes as SoftBank's stock posts its steepest drop since June and the company preps a New York bond roadshow.
PayTabs Group is acquiring Amazon Payment Services' Middle East and North Africa operations, consolidating a fragmented regional payments market and marking Amazon's exit from a business it inherited through its 2017 purchase of Souq.com.
The tunneling venture's valuation nearly quadrupled since 2022 as UAE-linked investors bankroll an expanded underground transit build-out beyond Dubai Loop.
The chipmaker is in talks to anchor Anthropic's IPO at a roughly $2 trillion valuation, deepening a financial relationship already built on gigawatts of GPU capacity.
The IPO completes the market debut of China's four leading domestic AI-chip startups amid a race to reduce reliance on Nvidia.
The Boston biotech's Series A backs a CTLA-4 antibody licensed from China's Harbour BioMed, betting that treating tumors before surgery beats treating them after.
Talks would value the OpenAI-backed maker of a household humanoid robot at $6 billion, about 40% below the price it sought last year — the latest sign of a reset in embodied-AI valuations.
The Reno-based startup is betting inference chips built around commodity memory, rather than scarce HBM, can challenge Nvidia's grip on the AI hardware market.
The acquisition brings Stilla's autonomous-agent technology in-house as Meta races to turn its year-old Business Agent into a real revenue stream beyond advertising.
The Chinese lab's newest model claims to beat its own flagship on speed and cost, arriving with API price cuts of up to 60% as competition intensifies.
A power-purchase deal with Fortum will let Google draw up to half of the Loviisa nuclear plant's output as the company builds out data centers across Finland.
Diffusion and Lightspeed co-led the round as Harvey's valuation nearly tripled since March, with the legal AI company also disclosing its fourth acquisition of the year.
The companies will co-design custom inference silicon and high-speed optical networking for AWS data centers in a deal that could be worth up to $60 billion.
The New York startup, which uses AI agents to clear insurance and pharmacy hurdles after a doctor writes a prescription, raised $150 million in a Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures.
The Paris startup's Samsung-led round underscores investor appetite for a European alternative to Silicon Valley's AI giants.
The ride-hailing giant is trimming a tenth of its workforce even as revenue grows, betting on driverless partnerships with Waymo, Rivian, Baidu and Pony.ai.
The multiyear Texas agreement puts Nvidia in three roles at once — chip supplier, investor and landlord — reviving circular-financing concerns.
The Series B, led by Delta-v Capital, arrives as HiddenLayer's annual recurring revenue grew more than tenfold and the company pushes further into securing autonomous AI agents.
The wearable health startup's public filing shows revenue up 74%, as it looks to raise as much as $3 billion in one of the year's largest consumer-tech listings.
The filing, at a roughly $50 billion valuation, makes the Beijing startup the latest Chinese AI developer turning to Hong Kong's exchange as U.S. listings stay out of reach.
The transition, effective Dec. 1, hands the Photoshop and Creative Cloud maker to a customer-experience veteran just as Narayen's tenure had grown Adobe's revenue eightfold.
The stock-and-cash tie-up folds LivePerson's enterprise messaging business into SoundHound's OASYS agent platform, five months after the deal was first announced.
The smart ring maker's S-1 shows revenue up 74 percent and 5 million paying members, positioning it as the biggest wearables debut in years.
The WhatsApp-based money-transfer startup's Series C, split between equity and credit, values the Miami company at roughly $1.4 billion as investors keep betting on fintech built for Latin American immigrants.
The $3 billion round, co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners with backing from Abu Dhabi's Mubadala, comes as Crusoe explores a near-term IPO and builds out capacity for customers including Microsoft, Meta and OpenAI.
A year after selling out as a $65 specialty six-pack, Taco Bell's Salt & Straw collaboration is going mass-market nationwide, chasing the ghost of the discontinued Choco Taco.
The Israeli-Dutch startup's valuation has more than doubled in under six months, the latest sign investors are still paying up for AI agent platforms that can prove they work inside large companies.
The Beijing AI startup's valuation has jumped from $30 billion to $50 billion in weeks, fueled by its Kimi K3 open-weight model — and it is reportedly in talks to bring that model to Microsoft, Amazon and Google's clouds.
McKinsey's latest global AI survey finds nearly a third of organizations have passed on purchasing software because agentic coding tools let them build it in-house instead — though homegrown tools succeed less often than the vendor products they replace.
Lasso Security says its new CPU-based screening engine can vet AI agent requests in under five milliseconds, letting enterprises drop costly GPU infrastructure from the safety layer.
The Series A extension, co-led by JOIN Capital and Ace Capital Partners, brings HyImpulse's total funding past €125 million as it prepares back-to-back test flights of its suborbital and orbital rockets.
Waymo opened driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa while Amazon's Zoox began testing in Houston and San Diego, as both companies push to outpace Tesla's robotaxi ambitions.
Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst co-led the Series C, tripling the Miami fintech's valuation as it looks beyond cross-border payments for Latino immigrants.
The hardware chief who helped build the iPad and Apple Watch became CEO on September 1, while Cook shifts into a new executive chairman role ahead of Apple's September 9 iPhone event.
The back-to-back raises bring the firm's total new fundraising this year past $16 billion as it doubles down on AI infrastructure and late-stage bets.
The ad business reached the milestone in just 200 days but remains well behind OpenAI's own $2.5 billion target for the year, as the company races to diversify revenue ahead of an expected IPO.
The AI go-to-market platform's valuation has more than doubled in eight months, the fourth step-up in just over a year as investors chase category-leading AI sales tools.
The Series C round, which brings AusperBio's total funding to $360 million, will fund a Phase 3 trial and expansion of its antisense-therapy pipeline.
Sequoia-led funding triples Valar Atomics' valuation to $6 billion as the company races to turn its small modular reactor from a prototype into a factory-built product for power-hungry AI data centers.
The platform that once supplied cheap human labor for machine-learning training is closing September 30, squeezed out by automation and a new wave of dedicated AI-data companies.
The Information reports Nvidia has agreed to acquire the open-source AI hub, a deal that would hand the chipmaker outsized influence over how developers share and deploy AI models — though neither company has confirmed it.
A $1 billion round for a hypersonic-weapons startup and a $2.5 billion valuation for a four-month-old AI assistant show how far investor appetite now stretches beyond software.
The Beijing startup is negotiating for up to 30% of what the three cloud giants would earn hosting its Kimi K3 model, even as U.S. officials weigh sanctions over how the model was built.